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Ironcast cover art

Ironcast

Dreadbit · Ripstone · 2015-03-26

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 26, 2015 (Linux), Mar 01, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Mar 26, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 04, 2016 (Xbox One), Mar 26, 2015 (Mac)

Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.

5
playing now
72%
positive of 967 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
63/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Ironcast is a British turn-based strategy video game developed by Dreadbit and was released for PC platforms in March 2015, PS4 and Xbox One in March 2016, and Nintendo Switch version in August 2017. The game has individual missions played through a match-three system, and features procedurally generated missions, permadeath, and staples of the roguelike genre.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–58k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 967 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$2.99-80%
Steam$2.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-07-13) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 31 of 54 observed days · $1.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492015-03-262026-08-302015-03-26 — best price $10.492015-11-25 — best price $8.992016-05-23 — best price $14.992017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-09-21 — best price $14.992018-02-15 — best price $7.492018-09-13 — best price $14.992019-05-24 — best price $14.992020-01-22 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $14.992021-07-15 — best price $14.992021-11-17 — best price $14.992022-01-08 — best price $14.992022-03-25 — best price $2.992022-05-07 — best price $12.592022-07-12 — best price $3.002022-08-30 — best price $12.592022-11-16 — best price $14.992023-01-02 — best price $12.592023-03-13 — best price $14.992023-04-25 — best price $12.592023-06-23 — best price $2.992023-08-25 — best price $14.992023-11-17 — best price $3.432024-01-10 — best price $14.992024-02-26 — best price $12.592024-04-18 — best price $12.592024-06-28 — best price $3.002024-09-02 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-04-17 — best price $5.922025-08-22 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-06-11 — best price $14.992026-08-14 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
77.3%
earned "Overkill"
30.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,4065%30
PS4 (PlayStation)5859%14
Xbox One (Xbox)4045%14
Switch (Nintendo)120%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGEpicIndieMechsCasualPuzzleMatch 3StrategySteampunkRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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